Amīnjī b. Jalāl b. Ḥasan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Amīnjī b. Jalāl b. Ḥasan (d. 13 Shawwāl 1010/6 April 1602) was an eminent Ṭayyibī Ismāʿīlī Bohra jurist and author from India. The son of the twenty-fifth dāʿī muṭlaq of the Ṭayyibī Ismāʿīlīs, Shams al-Dīn Jalāl b. Ḥasan (d. 975/1567), Amīn al-Dīn Amīnjī lived and died in Aḥmadābād, Gujarat. During Amīnjī's lifetime the Dāʾūdī-Sulaymānī schism occurred in the Ṭayyibī community. Amīnjī sided with the Dāʾūdī cause, which was upheld by the vast majority of Indian Ṭayyibī Bohras. Thus Amīnjī recognised the claim of